CREATING THE MESSAGE INFRASTRUCTURE Draft paper for submission to TEC, December 2009 Version 6

The ever-increasing power of computing infrastructure such as processing, storage and network bandwidth continues to enable new models of data management and analysis. The Mobile Environmental Sensor System Across Grid Environments (MESSAGE) set out to make use of such advances, combined with e-Science techniques, to support the capture, processing, archiving, analysis and visualisation of pollution data. This paper describes the e-Science infrastructure that was developed within MESSAGE to support these tasks.